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THE INCIDENT (Dir. Larry Peerce, 1967, US)
* * * In Larry Peerce’s harrowing thriller, The Incident (1967), a cross-section of native New Yorkers finds themselves confined in a subway car, facing a veritable nightmare as two malevolent street hoodlums turn the mundane journey into a claustrophobic crucible. Tony Musante, and a young, sinister Martin Sheen, whom we first encounter menacingly prowling Continue reading
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DEAD OF NIGHT / DEATH DREAM (Dir. Bob Clark, 1974, US)
* * * * This one has a haunting, traumatic premise about a young soldier who is killed in the Vietnam War but returns from the dead at his family home on the night of his death. Andy, a young soldier, is symptomatic of not only the return of the repressed, which in this case Continue reading
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KID BLUE (Dir. James Frawley, Dennis Hopper, 1973, US)
* * * A forgotten Western from the early 70s but an altogether brilliantly funny one with Dennis Hopper in fine form as Texas train robber and proletarian semi-Marxist desperado Kid Blue who decides to go straight in a small town in Texas. A comedy Western with a latent counterculture dimension, Kid Blue’s attempts to Continue reading
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A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM (Dir. Jan Egleson, 1990, US)
* * * * Director Jan Egleson must have been taking careful notes when he was watching Get Carter because this is a work that is constructed deliciously around the cold dead eyes of Michael Caine which pierces through every frame. Egleson glances into the cutthroat mischief of the corporate world in which the suits Continue reading
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THE WIDE BLUE ROAD (Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo, 1957, Italy)
* * * Pontecorvo’s career hinges on the very influential The Battle of Algiers which he made in the 1960s. I often thought his career was far more extensive, but he only made a handful of films. His earliest film, The Wide Blue Road, is a provocative blend of neorealism and political melodrama. In essence, Continue reading
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